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(3/7) Entering Another Plane
His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad
Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj
Sri Krishna Janmastami Maha-Mahotsav
Kolkata-Worldwide, 12 August 2020, part 3
Question: In ***, they do not take anukalpa on the Janmastami festival (they take grains), but in our mission and throughout India they take anukalpa. Is there any background story about it?
I do not know what that particular mission does, but I know that our Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math and some other Gaudiya Maths follow the viddhi-marga according to the precepts of Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur Prabhupad. I know they take anukalpa on Baladev's appearance day, Janmastami, Gaura Purnima, on Nityananda Prabhu's appearance day, on Vamandev's appearance day, etc. but in our temples, we take anukalpa only on Janmastami (midnight), Gaura Purnima (moon rise) and Nrisingha-chaturdasi (sunset).
Question: How will we recognise Sri Gurudev after we leave this body?
If you are a proper practitioner—if you practise properly, if you have already reached the highest position and Gurudev has kept you here so that you follow his instruction and finish the service that he could not finish (if you can finish the service that is coming to you from your Guru in this world, in this human body), then you can reach the place where Gurudev stays. Gurudev always exists in his nitya-lila (eternal pastimes)—he is always in Goloka Vrindavan, he is an associate of Lord Sri Krishna and he is always with Krishna. So, if you can fulfil Gurudev's desire, if you can follow everything, if you can become a 100% devotee, if you are a surrendered soul, then you will know that what Gurudev said is the truth—you will have this kind of strongest faith that Gurudev said, "If you follow Krishna consciousness properly, you will not have to come again to the world of birth and death, you will not have to follow this circle of birth and death—you will stay forever with me." Also, Krishna says throughout Srimad Bhagavad-gita, "Those who are surrendered to Me—who offer Me a leaf, a flower, a fruit with devotion, etc. (patram puspam phalam toyam)—who worship Me and do everything for Me, they will always stay with Me." This is how you will be able to recognise Gurudev and everything else there...
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Question: It seems that we have one type of fear that having got some connection with your self we may lose that at death. I do not want to have connection with anyone else, I want to stay with you. So, I feel some type of fear... Srila B.S. Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj: Fear? But why have fear? I cannot understand it. Devotee: Because if we do not finish our sadhana nicely, then next life we do not know where we will go—we may not find Govinda Maharaj there. Srila Govinda Maharaj: What do you think about Govinda Maharaj? Devotee: We think that we want to serve you. Srila Govinda Maharaj: No, it is okay that you want to serve Govinda Maharaj, but what do you think about Govinda Maharaj? He is your guru, but in which form do you think about him? Do you think that Govinda Maharaj is a mundane man or an incarnation of the Lord coming in front of you to give you connection with Him? If you think he is an incarnation of the Lord, then he cannot leave your heart and you cannot leave your Lord. Even if you die, you will get that connection in another form, perhaps, but you will not be able to leave your Lord. When you have faith that the Lord always lives with you, then there will be no fear. That is the main thing. By the mercy of Vaishnavs I also always feel that my Srila Guru Maharaj (Srila B.R. Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj) is present with us. By the mercy of Vaishnavs and the supremacy of Srila Guru Maharaj, such feeling always comes to us that Srila Guru Maharaj has not left us, that he is with us. I have service of Srila Guru Maharaj, and I must do that. Service to Srila Guru Maharaj is my only goal of life, and whichever way that service comes to me, I will try to serve. Devotee: In my next life, I want to forever be a blade of grass wherever you walk... Srila Govinda Maharaj: I do not want to wait for the next life. Actually, we must finish all our job here this life, then we shall all go to Goloka! (8 June 1992) |
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